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Program No. 61: Robert Mapplethorpe (2006)
Directed by Paul Tschinkel
· 1h 19m
A look at at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a world renowned and controversial photographer, who died of AIDS in 1989. It explores his photography, his relationship to the downtown New York art world, and the gay S&M club scene prevalent in the eighties. His infamously explicit pictures of the gay, leather, New York Underground were considered groundbreaking and made him a cause celebre. Mapplethorpe’s portraits, flowers, erotic subject matter and artistic presentation, elevated the photograph to serious art, worthy of exhibition in galleries and museums.
Cast
Robert Mapplethorpe
Crew
- Director
- Paul Tschinkel
Details
- Release date
- 2006-09-15
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English